Cutting-machine.



No. 662,186. Patented Nov. 20, I900.

n. CARLAW.

CUTTING MACHINE.

(Application filed Dec. 28, 1897.) 7

'(Nu modem 2 Sheets-Shut ITNESSEQ: [MENTOR Ilflv/p GHRLHW HIS HWDRNEYS No. 662,!86. Patented Nov. 20, I900.

' n. CARLAW.

CUTTING MACHINE.-

- (Application filed, Dec. 28, 1897.) (No Model.) 2 Sheet8heet 2.

Fla

WNESSES: )NVENTORY DnvmC HRLAW BY H: s flrr kwev s IAENT DAVID OARLAW, OF GLASGOIV, SCOTLAND.

CUTTING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,186, dated November 20, 1900.

Application filed December 28, 1897. Serial No. 664,004- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID OARLAW, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,and a resident of Glasgow, Scotland,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gutters, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 23,048, bearing date October 17, 1896,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in the cutting and delivery mechanism of printing-machines where an intermittent motion is employed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are an elevation and plan view, respectively, of the delivery end of a print-ingmachine to which my improvements are applied. v

In printing tickets in this machine they are carried on endless tapes D, after having been cut off in rows of, say, fifty from the printed web a, and they are delivered at the end of the traverse to the flier G to be stacked up.

A knife consisting of a steel barE set at a slight inclination is mounted on atransverse web E at one end of an oscillating frame E which is in turn mounted in brackets E cast in one with a frame E This latter is adj ustable by slotted lugs and pinching-pins E in the side rails of the machine. The barknife E receives an up-and-down motion over a corresponding fixed bar e in close proX- imity to the traveling band, so that when the rows of tickets are cut off they drop onto the traveling bands D. Intermittent motion is given to these traveling hands by a connecting-rod X, having a crank connection to the driving-shaft e at one end and operating a pawl w, engaging the ratchet-wheel on, secured to the shaft of the drum D, around which the bands D pass. The oscillating frame E receives its downward-travel motion, by rods 6 on each side of the frame with slotted ends (2 and cams c and antifriction-pulley 6 from a rotating shaft 6 at bottom of machine. The recoil action of spiral springs f, attached to an overhead frame f, fixed to machine, will give the oscillating frame E the return upward motion after each action of cutting the strips of tickets.

A metal band-flier G is fitted near the delivery endof tapes D, which carry the strips of tickets. The ends of this band G are socured to levers G, mounted on a transverse spindle G and one of these levers is connected by a rod G to be actuated from a cam similar to those used for actuating the knifebar, and a spring G is provided to return the band flier to its initial position. By this means the band-flier G gets an intermittent tilting motion to receive each strip or row of tickets as it is delivered by the band D and throw same over on its edge, the several strips being delivered in parallel line, so that they can be manipulated at a glance.

I claim as my invention- 1. In mechanism for cutting and stacking strips of tickets, &c., the combination of an oscillating knife to cut the strips, with a flier and bands to receive the cut strips from the knife, and deliver them to the flier, and means for intermittently operating the knife, bands and flier, substantially as described.

2. In mechanism for cutting and stacking strips of tickets, ($50., the combination of an oscillating knife to cut the strips, withaflier and bands to receive the cut strips from the knife and deliver them to the flier, and means for intermittently operating the knife, bands and flier, all from one continuously-driven shaft, substantially as described.'

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID OARLAW.

Witnesses:

R. O. THOMSON, WM. RUTHERFORD. 

